Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exciting acceptance for the Music Department, Professor Robert D. Levin '68 joins the Faculty this fall. Levin, a world-renowned concert pianist, has specialized in completing many of Mozart's unfinished compositions...
...John Adams, director of the Glee Club asked Levin to complete an unfinished fugue from Mozart's Requiem mass. This led Levin to complete two other of Mozart's 50 incomplete pieces for his senior thesis in music...
Since then, Levin has completed many more of Mozart's incomplete works, including the Requiem mass, which Mozart died writing...
...reclusive, self- promoting ascetic; a pianist of Horowitzian technique who, with curious exceptions like Bizet and Sibelius, usually shunned the Romantics. Sony Classical's magnificent GLENN GOULD EDITION, to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre (much of it previously unreleased). His Haydn is superb; his Mozart and Beethoven range from riveting to risible; his moderns dazzle. Above all, sensibility and omnipotent fingers made him a peerless contrapuntalist, who could with uncanny rhythmic acuity articulate multiple lines and transmute complex musical thought, especially Bach's, into pure and exciting expression...
...Hill's Phantom of the Opera. First produced in England in 1976, this comic melodrama had a book by Hill and a score by Ian Armit. In 1984 Hill dropped the original music and wrote new lyrics to arias by Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. Lloyd Webber considered producing an embellished version of it, then decided to do his own. Thank heavens. Hill's backstage farce is a kind of Noises Off without the wit, and the cast plays it as hammy gaslight farce -- a penny dreadful that at today's prices plays like a $32.50 dreadful. It alights...